SAN JOSE, Calif -- Adobe has released its 2018 online
shopping data for Cyber Monday and the holiday week overall. Cyber Monday hit $7.9 billion, making it the largest online shopping day of all time in the
U.S.

This represents a 19.3 percent increase year-over-year
(YoY) as of 7:00 p.m. ET. In comparison, Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday
brought in $3.7 billion (28 percent growth YoY) and $6.2 billion (23.6 percent
growth YoY) in revenue, respectively. Saturday and Sunday, November 24 and 25,
set a new record as the biggest online shopping weekend in the U.S. ($6.4
billion) growing faster than Black Friday and Cyber Monday with more than 25
percent on each day. The full season thus far (November 1 to 26) drove $58.5
billion in online sales, a 19.9 percent increase, with every day generating
over $1 billion.

Revenue from smartphones should hit $2.1 billion on Cyber
Monday ($1.4 billion in 2017), making it the highest ever at 48.1 percent
growth YoY, while smartphone traffic share grew 16 percent. Mobile overall
represented 51.4 percent of site visits (43.6 percent smartphones, 7.8 percent
tablets) and 34 percent of revenue (26.3 percent smartphones, 7.7 percent
tablets), making it the first Cyber Monday where more than half of visits came
from mobile.

"Cyber Monday sales topped $7.9 billion according to
Adobe Analytics data, making it the single largest shopping day in U.S.
history," said John Copeland, head of Marketing and Customer Insights at
Adobe. "Sales coming from smartphones hit an all-time high of $2 billion
and we saw a significant spike in the Buy Online, Pickup In-Store trend."

Additional findings include:

Golden Hours of Retail: Shoppers took advantage of final
Cyber Monday deals before heading to bed. The three hours between 10:00 p.m.
and 1:00 a.m. ET on Cyber Monday are expected to drive $1.7 billion in online
sales, roughly $300 million more than an average full day during the year.

Biggest Discounts: Black Friday saw the best deals for
televisions (prices down 18 percent) and computers (17.8 percent). On the
Sunday before Cyber Monday, shoppers saw some of the best deals for toys (31.6
percent). The biggest discounts for furniture and bedding (14 percent) are
expected to happen on Giving Tuesday.

Out-of-Stock Levels: 2.4 percent of product page visits saw
an out-of-stock message on Cyber Monday, up over a season average of 2.1
percent. This cost retailers up to $187 million in potential sales. In
comparison, Thanksgiving saw 3.3 percent and Black Friday saw 2.8 percent,
costing retailers up to $120 million and $177 million, respectively.

Top Cities by Spend: Denver had the biggest shopping
baskets since Thanksgiving with orders averaging $163, followed by $157 in San
Francisco, $156 in New York, $156 in Portland and $154 in the Seattle/Tacoma
area. The nationwide average is $138, up 6.1 percent YoY as shoppers have
gotten more comfortable buying more and bigger ticket items online.

Main Sales Drivers: On Cyber Monday, direct website traffic
ranked highest for driving revenue at 25.3 percent share of sales (down 1.2
percent YoY), followed by paid search at 25.1 percent (up 7.4 percent YoY),
natural search at 18.8 percent (down 2.8 percent) and email at 24.2 percent (up
0.5 percent). Similar to past years, social media continued to have minimal
impact on online sales at a 1.1 percent share.

Large Versus Small Retailers: Large retailers ($1 billion
or more in annual e-commerce revenue) saw 6 percent higher conversion rates on
smartphones, a sign that investments in improving the mobile shopping
experience are paying off. Smaller retailers, offering more specialized
products, were better at getting shoppers to close sales via desktops with 7
percent higher conversions.

Methodology

Adobe leverages Adobe Sensei, Adobe's artificial
intelligence and machine learning technology, to identify retail insights from
trillions of data points that flow through Adobe Analytics and Magento Commerce
Cloud, part of Adobe Experience Cloud. Adobe Analytics analyzes one trillion
visits to U.S. retail sites, 55 million SKUs and 80 of the largest 100 U.S. web
retailers* - more than any other technology company.

Only Adobe's analysis spans large, medium and small
retailers across over 50 merchandise categories, powered by Magento Commerce
Cloud, to provide the industry's most accurate view of online shopping in the U.S.
Companion research is based on a survey of more than 1,000 U.S. consumers in
October 2018.